Cooking Dinner

I’m cooking dinner. Not really sure why I’m cooking dinner. Had a huge lunch with the kids, Sabrina, and Sabrina’s parents at a local tex mex place. The quality of the tex mex wasn’t great and that was known going i
Back to cooking dinner. Lydia helped with the Kale chicken salad and then I asked the kids to get off their pads and phones until after dinner. The pad and phone time battle is a losing one. And I guess one about control. Not sure what the real harm is. Then again, as I mentioned, I’m not sure why I am cooking dinner. So there’s that.
But the kids do get off the pads and phones and soon there's laughter in the house.  Uno is being played between Elisa, Aidan, and Sabrina. Lydia is on the couch doing “art” which is an upgraded term from what she used to just call “drawing”.
I finish cooking, a kind of chicken casserole that takes an hour. Lydia and Aidan set the table and the five of us sit around. Elisa as usual doesn’t want to try anything. She’s satisfied with the sweet potatoes I cooked earlier. Aidan takes a few bites and says he’s full. Sabina, Lydia, and I eat well. From kitchen to table - two hours. From table back to pads and phones - 15 minutes.
The 15 minutes was filled with talk about school and some laughter. Leftovers for lunch packed and dishes washed the end of my week with the kids is about up. Time to make sure they shower and sleep with their pads away from their beds.
The weekend last most weekends I have with them was uneventful. Friday night pizza party, movie night. Saturday afternoon basketball with Aidan and Lydia, Lydia suddenly wanting to learn after our trip to the US. A play date for Elisa. Sunday was mostly lunch and digestion.
And then cooking.